Paul Stapleton, Managing Director of NIE Networks talks to Owen McQuade about the challenges in running an electricity network business and how the grid is facilitating the transition to a low carbon energy future. NIE Networks operate the electricity distribution network in Northern Ireland. It is an extensive network of 47,000 km with around 300...

Head of Energy Strategy Division in the Department for the Economy, Joe Reynolds, discusses the challenges facing the development of a future energy strategy for Northern Ireland and the trends affecting its perceived outcomes. Contextualising energy policy in Northern Ireland as being currently caught between the 2010 Strategic Energy Framework and the development of a...

Katy Hayward of Queen’s University Belfast offers her reflections on Brexit, borders and their potential impacts on criminal justice co-operation in Ireland. Opening her presentation, Hayward suggests that many questions remain unresolved in relation to the impact of Brexit on security and criminal justice cooperation in Ireland. Indeed, throughout her analysis she notes that the...

Paul Wickens, Chief Executive of Enterprise Shared Services (ESS) for the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS), discusses the journey of digital government in Northern Ireland to date and offers some insight on the future roadmap of three new key strategies. Paul Wickens outlines that a lot has changed since the original concept of nidirect and...

Category Archives: Reform

HMRC’s Contact Platform Manager, Lily Lewis provides some insight into HMRC’s digital mission. HMRC is a very large organisation, it sends out roughly 220 million items of post per year and receives...

Speaking on behalf of Policy Exchange, Eddie Copeland discusses the need for local government to embrace the digital revolution and make better use of data services. With estimates predicting that projected incomes...

Orlaigh Quinn, Programme Director for Public Service Reform in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, in Dublin, discusses the department’s plans to continue to drive and support the delivery of Public...

The senior policy advisor at the Netherland’s association of further education colleges, Manfred Polzin talks to Adam Morton about the success of the Dutch system of further education. With around 50 per...

Northern Ireland’s health Minister Simon Hamilton has announced the six person panel that will decide the future of our health service. A year after the Donaldson report called for an international panel...

Scottish Government’s Head of Digital Public Services, Colin Cook discusses Scotland’s digital transformation. Just like Northern Ireland, Scotland has a devolved administration and thanks to a promise made in the run up...

With the structure of Stormont’s departments set to change following May’s election, agendaNi takes a look at the roles and responsibilities of the nine new departments. One of the commitments in the...

A look at the progress of the Northern Ireland Department of Agriculture and Rural Development’s decentralisation process announced in 2011. DARD HQ A planning decision is expected very soon on new departmental...

Northern Ireland’s health Minister Simon Hamilton has announced the six person panel that will decide the future of our health service. A year after the Donaldson report called for an international panel...

A look at the progress of the Northern Ireland Department of Agriculture and Rural Development’s decentralisation process announced in 2011. DARD HQ A planning decision is expected very soon on new departmental...